Incredibly, the suspects’ attorneys also argued that such charitable giving, to support jihad and mujahideen, is rightfully tax exempt under the US constitutional protection of religious freedom. 51 Court records show Care International deposited checks “with handwritten notes such as ‘for jihad only’, ‘Bosnia Jihad fund’, and ‘Chechen Muslim Fighters’”.

As the rebellion intensified and spread among Islamic guerrillas known as the mujahideen, Moscow debated sending in troops to install a more competent, compliant government and to train the failing Afghan military.

It is now no secret that the C.I.A., via Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ISI, funded and supported violent Islamic jihadists called the mujahideen, providing them billions for weapons and training.

On July 3, 1979, on the advice of his brilliant and hawkish national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter signed the first directive to secretly aid Afghan rebels known as the mujahideen who were fighting the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.